Small, but very important, signs of recovery. A few days after Christmas, dall’Padua hospital filter encouraging updates on the conditions of Alex Zanardi, the athlete victim of a terrible road accident last June 19: “Raise your thumb to give the ok, shakes hands on request, and if they ask him where he is his wife Daniela, turns his head towards her », reveals the Corriere della Sera.
“It is slowly recovering vital functions, in a path that looks like a climb to Everest», We still read in the article, signed by Carlo Verdelli. “We are at the foot of climbing, which is already an unexpected result. The next step will be move your tongue, a step that doctors give a lot of importance. He will take care of the rest, a little at a time, inch after inch, up to finish line».
Since his handbike she crashed into a truck during a charity relay race, in Tuscany, the world of sport – and not only – prays for Zanardi to reach a sort of “Third life”. Yes, because already in 2001, on a German circuit, the Bolognese pilot he lost control of the car and was hit in full by a colleague: a crash that cost him amputation of the legs.
After 16 surgical operations, Alex raises his head, returns to driving cars but above all starts a new career from paracyclist which takes him up to Paralympics where he wins four golds and two silvers. But last summer the bad luck still strikes him: a month of induced coma, five operations and a critical clinical picture, also followed by complications and necessary transfers.
From the polyclinic le Sheets of Siena at the specialized center of Lecco for rehabilitation, then in intensive care at San Raffaele of Milan and since last November 21 – achieved «a physical and neurological condition of general stability»- is in the ward of neurosurgery of the Hospital of Padua. To be close to his wife e to the son, who in all these very difficult months do not have it never left alone.
Today Alex sees and hears, communicates: a few days before Christmas, together with his family, he is ready to begin a new climb.
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